219 Quotes by Tim Burton

Most people say about graveyards: “Oh, it’s just a bunch of dead people. It’s creepy.” But for me, there’s an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.

Nice work, bone daddy.

Half the fun is plan to plan.

I am not a big technology person. I don’t go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it’s private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

The great thing about visual horror films is there’s real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It’s the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I’ve always loved that idea of windmills – your mind aimlessly spinning.

I’ve found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

It’s great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.

When it comes to art and science, people don’t like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they’re closed off about it.